soldiers (known as hoplites) engaged in battle in the form of one mob for each army which

on the command of their generals runs at each other and proceeds to hack blindly at the

enemy with little to no direction other then to kill the enemy in front of them. This proved

to be very messy and the tide of battle depended mostly on emotion and size of an army. In

the name of strategy and organization, the phalanx was developed. A phalanx is simply

defined as a line formation with its width significantly larger then its depth. The depth of

the phalanx is a variable which some suggest was decided by the army itself rather then by

the leaders of the army. The smallest depth appears to have been that of one man deep.

However this was a unique occurrence which is widely believed to be fictitious. The

largest depth is that of 120 men deep which was fielded at one time by the Macedonians.

On average, the depth of the phalanx appears to be about eight men deep. During the time

of Alexander the Great, the phalanx was believed to be eight men deep, but some argue that

it evolved into a sixteen man deep phalanx. The Spartans purp

Greeks totally ignored this area of military strategy. Countless tales of armies meeting each

before, because Sparta had never been so desperate. However, the helots were a strong

different form of government. The Spartans formed a very complex government mixing

down any revolts. Therefore, even though the Spartan military was comparatively small, it

their phalanx so to confuse the enemy about the number of soldiers fielded. The phalanx

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